Margot's Blog

When I gave the plasterer the job of re-roofing the garage (or rather, managing it, as he sub-contracted a scaffolder and a roofer), I asked...

When you get an academic job you think you will mainly be teaching. But once you're going, at least this day and age, you find you spend...

Four weeks ago we had had a very good round of blowing things up in the dig . So now it was time to bring things down! And as the ceiling is...

Sometimes this blog works! I was just doing my thing on Saturday when I received a message. It was from an old Dutch friend! He was on holid...

The house clearly has an attic! But how to get there? It didn't have one of those handy trapdoors that has a ladder that unfolds itself ...

As soon as my house had a living room I started entertaining . I had so far only had colleagues from Ocean Sciences around. (When I have fa...

Fresh bread is lovely! I really enjoy my bread machine and the fresh bread several times a week. Ideally all my bread would be baked the sam...